4 Famous TV Ads That Invented Horrifying Fictional Universes - The Spit Take 

psychiatrist: "so Tony how are those anti-depressants working?" Tony the tiger: "they're great! ~cue the saddest violin music~

Ok, that last ad with the ballpark frank thing... That was banned, right? Because... that's horrifying. That grotesque mutant arm just murdered an old man while we watched his life slowly fade away as he gasped for precious air. I feel like I've just watched a snuff film.

Actually, the M&M commercials DID address cannibalism. It had Patrick Warburton discovering a trio of M&Ms eating M&Ms. He remarks, "You don't eat your own kind, it's unnatural." They stop, look at the bags and then exchange them so that they're all eating a different kind of M&M from themselves. At this point, Warburton says "Gimme the bags." and as he walks outside, he says "Oh that's just disturbing."

the damn poptart commercials. There is literally one that still airs where a Nurse Eats a Newborn in front of it's helpless parents.

How are more people not talking about that last commercial? How did that even get through? Who came up with the idea to have some hungry teenage kid with a fully grown adult male arm growing out of his stomach murdering an old man because he was about to eat the last hot dog and just so happened to be kind of a dick?

"Sugar-induced Tyler Durden" I'm wheezing

tony's the stepdad bruh

That last commercial is truly horrifying.

Ummm... Is substituting the word TIGER for HORSE such a intellectual stretch? Batman solved it.

Tony the Tiger needs to stop skipping leg day

How about the DIRECTV "no wires" ad with the disturbing marionette people, and the one human guy married to the marionette wife? And their creepy marionette kid? By far the most freaky alternate ad universe I've seen. Where do those wires go? Who's controlling them? Is it all in the one guy's crazed, fractured mind?

I have a theory why Jack O'Brien always wears that jacket...he has no shoulders. His arms just come out of the side of his torso like a Mr. Potatoheadman.

"Oh I didn't realize he deserved to be murdered." I laughed so loud, I'm pretty sure I woke up my household. xD

Hey, speaking of Tony the Tiger, The dude who voices the original Tony also sang "You're a Mean One, Mr.Grinch".

Tony isn't playing hangman, it's keeping score for horse except it's tiger

Tony was playing 'horse' a game played by two or more people in which every time a player gets the ball through the hoop they get a letter. (First time 'h', second time 'o' ect.) the first one to get the word 'horse' (or in this case 'Tiger') wins. This makes Tony that kid in school whom nobody really wanted play with- but whom you kinda felt sorry for. So he'd ask to play basketball and you and your friends would say no- because "eww- Tony germs!" then that one nice kid (the one who was probably a milk-monitor and always let you use her coloured pencils) would say "why don't you keep score? That would be really useful!" then you go back to your game. A few minutes later you'd hear "hey you guys! The game's over- Stacey won! Guys? Guys? Oh, you gonna keep on playing- like it's best out of three? Cool. I'll just draw out a new scoreboard then..." "Guys? Are we going inside now? Wait for me! Please..." Then you'd see him sitting on the 'I need a friend' bench. Alone.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch ads. Why is cannibalism such a prominent theme in advertising lately?

3:55 called HORSE or whatever, if you make the shot you get letter and first to spell word wins.

I think Tony the Tiger is supposed to be the equivalent to Hobbes.

Tony the Tiger isnt playing hangman. He is keeping score in a game of "horse"...or in this case "tiger"

What ever happened to craked after hours?

... The basketball family was playing "Horse" which Tony decide to rename "Tiger"...

Uh dude. That was "horse" not hangman. Tony was keeping score for them. Just sayin'

Can we talk about the Geico cavemen who were made into an entire show...

When tony drawing I thought it wrote “so Lonley”

This is the main reason I have netflix and not cable, television ads are the worst.

Let's not forget the Geico caveman ads that they took even further and made a horrible tv show out of.

...great video... but i think the "joke" was that tony was keeping score while they played "HORSE." Its a two on two basketball game. Only instead of the word "HORSE" they used "TIGER."

Does anyone remember Ernest P. Worrel and how he went from a funny commercial guy to star in several of his own titular movies? My favorite was always Ernest Rides Again, but remember the fucked up Halloween one about the troll that turned children into wood carvings?

And then I realized Tony the Tiger is an imaginary friend.

Cracked end plates sounds like something you'd pick up at yard sale.

I did not expect such an oddly specific video to be so good and on-topic.

I think Tony is supposed to resemble how the cereal gives you energy and excitement, which explains why only the kids can see him.

great work man, love the show. The Spit Take is my new favorite Cracked show. It used to be After Hours, which used to me my most favorite RU-vid series but lately I think the show has either run out of ideas or shits to give.

3:40 - 3:55 Pretty sure they're actually playing "HORSE" and they had Tony keeping score so that he could feel included.

I disagree with the premise of this treatise. It seems to indicate that advertisers are aware of their sociopathic designs. While in fact, advertisers ARE sociopathic and therefore NOT aware of their horrific lack of socially redeeming values. But then again, ad execs were hired by company directors who are ALSO completely lacking in socially redeeming values ...or ethics... or morality...or just plain common sense.

This was hilarious! Well done

Now that I think about it, Tony's eyes look a little too Hepatitis C ish.

Having studied advertising I quickly realised the unspoken marketing mantra: if you can't sell it - put a face on it. creepy shit usually ensues.

I'm pretty sure that Tony is keeping the score of their game, like "Horse" but with the word tiger.

Actually, M&Ms did get into cannibalism. They once ate bags of their own M&M type and told that was just wrong then they just switch bag to which person just shook their head

Dude, you're great. Keep it up.

3:50 isn't he keeping score for a game of "horse" but instead called it "tiger"? Makes more sense to me.

You completely forgot Mr. Peanut's universe where he processes and sells his own species while keeping a factory of woodland critters slaving away, and kidnapping nutcrackers...

he's not playing hangman, he's keeping score in H.O.R.S.E. except it's T.I.G.E.R. instead.

It never ceases to amaze me how crazy your ads can be. I mean seriously!?

That's my favorite moment: "Oh, hey, I must have walked up and started playing the saddest game of Hangman ever in your driveway without seeing you there playing basketball."

how is showing that your addiction to junk food could make you harmful to yourself and others supposed to inspire you to buy more of it? who signed off on that sales pitch?!!!

That Milk/peanut butter commercial helped me answer a trivia question about Aaron Burr. Well played

When that Guy French'ed his hand I almost Barfed

Ok. I was beginning to think that I was the only one who found those Pop-Tarts commercials to be kinda horrifying.

How are these STILL the best thing Cracked has put out in 8 years?

Ever notice how Tony the Tiger is always talking about how grrrrrrreat Frosted Flakes are but you never see him eating them?

This just confirms my theory that the writers, directors, and stamp-of-approval-people who make commercials are psychopathic perverts with no understanding of human nature whatsoever.

I like to think that Tony is just the imaginary friend of all of these children.

Tony might be only visible to kids? Adults think the kids just have an imaginary friend or something.

Whoa!!! What about the Quizno's "Toasty Bullet" ad with the talking oven? "Dave", who is the only one that can see or hear the oven, is depicted mid psychotherapy session while his hallucination (the oven) chides him "you don't need therapy, just eat a toasty bullet." Advocate suicide much? The same ad campaign had another where the oven would say "put it in me, Dave." Dave: "No way, last time I did that, I got burned."

Truly, truly horrifying. Poignant critique at the end, well done Cracked editor-in-chief! (and writers?)

Aww poor tony

"Coincidentally" YT showed me a funny post-apocalyptic ad for a car in this video.

That Tony the Tiger one killed me 😂😂😂😂😂

Spot on. And what an exquisite end plate!

You can tell the kind of people who work at cracked because he has no idea what a game of horse or in this case "tiger" looks like... I'm a huge nerd and I have played pick up basketball before

Since I don't watch TV, I like to watch these episodes to see what I'm "missing out" on. But no pining for pop culture and mass media here! "So commercials are like this nowadays? Ok, whatever." *goes back to life*

As a recent graduate of college with a BA in marketing, I can promise your that hairy palm fucking was not included in the lessons.

OMG I LOVE U JACK..."YO, U AWAKE BRO"...CRACKS ME UP...

what about those pop tarts commercials where people pretty much murder sentient pop tarts while they realize their fates in terror

the mouth hand made me think of an alien manga lol

When people bring up commercials or I see ones of these on TV, I can't help but point out how uncomfortable these commercials make me. I would feel horrible if I was eating sentient food!

The last lines from all these videos always make me laugh

I always thought Tony the Tiger was a deity of joy who was cursed by gypsies to have a constant need for companionship.

Tony the tiger was playing hangman. He was putting done the letters for a game of horse, or in this case a game of tiger

M&M's did address cannibalism. There was an ad featuring three M&M's each eating their own type of M&M (i.e. peanut, plain, and crispy). A human, also eating M&M's, confronted them on eating their own kind. So they exchanged bags among one another, and continued. Then he insisted they all give him the bags.

in the Kelloggs Kraves commercials, they are fighting over who gets to eat each other

Nice job Jack funny stuff 😄

Lol. he wasn't playing hangman. he was keeping the score.

For the Tony the Tiger one, couldn't it be that Tony's imaginary to the parents and he wasn't playing hang man he was playing Horse or Tiger in this case

the anthropomorphization of food can never go well

There's a new commercial now where a tiny little man yells at a guy, forces him to pause the movie he's watching, drags him outside, bullying him the whole way, then daintily slips between his fingers... as his cigarette. It is so far beyond creepy, I just can't ever watch it again.

I don't think advertisers know what sometimes those weird commercials make me _not_ want their product.

Tony the tiger was the funniest one OMG I DIED

Love Drop Dead Fred...thanks for the namedrop Easter Egg...also, PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW/CHANNEL BACK!

I love this and I love Cracked.

Look, if marketing people were smart and creative, they wouldn't be working in marketing.

Tony the Tiger was being the score keeper when the father and child were playing horse. But instead of "horse", it was "tiger".

Ads then: Kill for what you want or die. I miss that.

funny thing is I saw the lays cannibal one before this video started

Where can I find all the videos with the guy in the end? I only want to watch his videos with cracked..

Fucking gold level comedy in this one... right here. "At a certain point the ads made the baffling decisions to imply that Tony had a life before and after each commercial as a single male adult. He's like that kid in school who was always yelling, " Hey wait for me!" if that kid was now a 50 something tiger that seemed to be lifting a ton of weights in his downtime... And now he's in your fucking house." Fucking gold, goddammit.

Tony is like a less philosophical Hobbes, the kid(s) know he's there but the parents treat him like a stuffed animal so the viewers don't know whether he's real or not.

One of the best so far. By the way, if I remember my annotated Dracula correctly, hair on the palms, that used to be an old sign of sexual degeneracy, i.e., fappin.' Still, I'm all for Cronenbergian commercials about cells. I mean, just watching toddlers tap still photos waiting for the screen to move . . . it's a cracked world man.

just remembered, I used to read cracked and mad magazine and loved it. this is what they've matured into? cool

Didn't Tony have a son at one point? Maybe Tony 1 is from the old black and white ones while Tony 2 is a depressed lonely tiger who plays horse with his neighbors and lifts weights to avoid the crippling reality of lonlieness.

I am that kid in elementary school always screaming: "Hey, guys! Wait for me!" 😔

Jesus I think I'm scared of that tiger now, like I've never properly taken into perspective HOW creepy his whole thing really is.

I remember m&ms had a commercial where they were cannibals eating their own kind. All the characters sitting around eating bags of m&ms It was even pointed out in the commercial! Their solution? to trade bags so now they are eating different versions of them selves. Brilliant.

1:40 there was a commercial where M&Ms ate other M&Ms. In fact, it probably predated the Lay's commercial!

Well, a few people already mentioned that Tony the Tiger was playing Horse with the father and son, but really? How many people are involved in writing, editing, filming, and reviewing these videos, and not a single person said "Hang on..."?

More proof that the ad industry is NOTHING like" Mad men"...

Actually the saddest game of hang man is the one where you die.